Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Rice's turn to crash

Asian Rice Yields Drop As Climate Change Warms Nighttime Temperatures
Just as Lester Brown writes about rising temperatures leading to rising food prices, a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the connection, already evident and likely to become more so, between rising temperatures and declining rice yields in parts of Asia. It's decidedly not a pretty picture.
Not a pretty picture for grain and rice production across the world.
I know I can grow some grain in my yard - but rice?
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